"English-language programs to primarily Hispanic and Chinese Americans. Ira and his younger brother George spent many after-school hours at the Settlement. The George and Ira Gershwin Collection is at the Library of Congress Music Division. The Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a number of Ira's manuscripts and other material. In 2007, the United States Library of Congress named its Prize for Popular Song after him and his brother George. Recognizing the profound and positive effect of American popular music on the world's"
"write the songs for his next show, ""Two Little Girls in Blue"", ultimately produced by Abraham Erlanger, along with co-composers Vincent Youmans and Paul Lannin. So as not to appear to trade off George's growing reputation, Ira wrote under the pseudonym ""Arthur Francis"", after his youngest two siblings. His lyrics were well received, allowing him successfully to enter the show-business world with just one show. Later the same year, the Gershwins collaborated for the first time on a score; this was for ""A Dangerous Maid"", which played in Atlantic City and on tour. It was not until 1924 that Ira"
"culture, the prize will be given annually to a composer or performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins. He married Leonore (née Strunsky) in 1926. He died in Beverly Hills, California, on 17 August 1983 at the age of 86. He is interred at Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Leonore died in 1991. Ira Gershwin Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz, December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With"
"professional musician; other family members followed suit. After Ira and George, another boy Arthur Gershwin (1900–1981), and a girl Frances Gershwin (1906–1999) were born into the family. The family lived in many different residences, as their father changed dwellings with each new enterprise in which he became involved. Mostly, they grew up around the Yiddish Theater District. George and Ira frequented the local Yiddish theaters, with George occasionally appearing onstage as an extra. George lived a usual childhood existence for children of New York tenements: running around with his boyhood friends, roller skating and misbehaving in the streets. Until 1908,"
"his brother Ira for many years as the successful duo The Louvin Brothers. They recorded twelve Top 40 Country singles and over a dozen albums. After breaking up in 1963, each began a solo career. Ira died on June 20, 1965 when a drunken driver struck his car. ""Just Between the Two of Us"" later became a hit for Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens. Greg Adams has since called it a strong album and wrote in his Allmusic review: ""Although his solo sides for Capitol are less essential and were less successful on the charts overall [than later releases], they"
"Ira Louvin Ira Lonnie Loudermilk (April 21, 1924 – June 20, 1965), known professionally as Ira Louvin, was an American country music singer, mandolinist and songwriter. He was a cousin of songwriter John D. Loudermilk. Ira Louvin was born in Section, Alabama and played together with his brother, Charlie, in the close harmony tradition as the Louvin Brothers. They were heavily influenced by the Delmore Brothers and Monroe Brothers. Ira played mandolin with Charlie Monroe, guitar player of the Monroe Brothers in the early 1940s. The Louvin Brothers' songs were heavily influenced by their Baptist faith and warned against sin."
"George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing . Her father, Lorenz Anderson, was an accomplished concert violinist and toured much of the mid-west at beginning of the 20th century with his classical trio. Lorenz fostered the love and study of music in his two daughters,and urged them to pursue professional acting and singing in New York City in 1945. Arlene moved there with her sister Betty and auditioned as a duet. They were exceptional singers and were constantly employed in the casts of major theatrical productions. Arlene worked with many luminaries of musical theater; Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Burton"
"Me"". Their partnership continued until George's sudden death from a brain tumor in 1937. Following his brother's death, Ira waited nearly three years before writing again. After this temporary retirement, Ira teamed up with accomplished composers such as Jerome Kern (""Cover Girl""); Kurt Weill (""Where Do We Go from Here?""; ""Lady in the Dark""); and Harold Arlen (""""; ""A Star Is Born""). Over the next 14 years, Gershwin continued to write the lyrics for many film scores and a few Broadway shows. But the failure of ""Park Avenue"" in 1946 (a ""smart"" show about divorce, co-written with composer Arthur Schwartz)"
"Inara George Inara Maryland George (born July 4, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, one half of The Bird and the Bee, a member of the band Merrick, with Bryony Atkinson, and a member of the trio The Living Sisters, with Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark. Her 2006 solo album ""All Rise"" was a KCRW hit. George was born in Towson, Maryland, United States. She is the daughter of Lowell George, the late founder of the rock and roll group Little Feat, and Elizabeth George. Jackson Browne wrote the song ""Of Missing Persons"" for Inara George after the death"
"than his younger brother, played the mandolin like Bill Monroe and sang in an impossibly high, tense, quivering tenor. Charlie strummed a guitar, grinned like a vaudevillian and handled the bottom register. But every so often, in the middle of a song, some hidden signal flashed and the brothers switched places — with Ira swooping down from the heights, and Charlie angling upward — and even the most careful listeners would lose track of which man was carrying the lead. This was more than close-harmony singing; each instance was an act of transubstantiation."" In 1963, fed up with Ira's drinking"
"Ira Schuster Ira Schuster (October 13, 1889 – October 10, 1946) was an American songwriter, who worked as a pianist at various publishing companies on Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th Century. He was also known as John Siras. He was born in New York City on October 13, 1889 to Sarah and Morris Schuster. His father was from Germany and his mother from England. He had a brother, Joseph Schuster (vaudeville). Schuster married Minnie and had two children, Wallace Schuster and Phoebe Schuster. Schuster collaborated with other notable songwriters of the time, and had a string of hits"
"Lori and George Schappell Lori and George Schappell (born as Lori and Dori Schappell, September 18, 1961) are conjoined twins. George has performed as a country singer. In 2007, George, who was at that time known as Reba Schappell, stated that although born female, he identifies as male and changed his name to George. George has designed support equipment for people with physical disabilities, including a specialized wheelchair and a mobility aid for dogs. As country singer Reba, George has performed widely in the United States and visited Germany and Japan and in 1997, won an L.A. Music Award for"
"Barbara George Barbara George (16 August 1942 – 10 August 2006) was an American R&B singer and songwriter. Born Barbara Ann Smith at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, she was raised in the 9th ward New Orleans, Louisiana and began singing in a church choir. She was discovered by singer Jessie Hill, who recommended her to record producer Harold Battiste. Her first record on Battiste's AFO (All For One) record label, ""I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)"", which her mother Eula Mae Jackson wrote, was issued in late 1961, and both topped the R&B chart"
"George (band) George (styled george) were an Australian rock band from Brisbane, Queensland. Their first album, ""Polyserena"", reached #1 in the Australian Charts on 17 March 2002. For most of george's career, the band consisted of Katie Noonan on vocals and keyboards, her brother Tyrone Noonan on vocals, guitar and keyboards, Geoff Green on drums and percussion, Paulie Bromley on bass and Nick Stewart on acoustic and electric guitar. Geoff Hooton, a bass player, left the band in early 2000. The Noonans formed the nucleus of the band, sharing principal songwriting duties and lead vocals. Nick Stewart also contributed to"
"Is Born"". American singer, pianist and musical historian Michael Feinstein worked for Gershwin in the lyricist's latter years, helping him with his archive. Several lost musical treasures were unearthed during this period, and Feinstein performed some of the material. Feinstein's book ""The Gershwins and Me: A Personal History in Twelve Songs"" about working for Ira, and George and Ira's music was published in 2012. According to a 1999 story in Vanity Fair, Ira Gershwin's love for loud music was as great as his wife's loathing of it. When Debby Boone—daughter-in-law of his neighbor Rosemary Clooney—returned from Japan with one of"
"he cared nothing for music, when as a ten-year-old he was intrigued upon hearing his friend Maxie Rosenzweig's violin recital. The sound, and the way his friend played, captured him. At around the same time, George's parents had bought a piano for lessons for his older brother Ira, but to his parents' surprise, and Ira's relief, it was George who spent more time playing it. Although his younger sister Frances was the first in the family to make a living through her musical talents, she married young and devoted herself to being a mother and housewife, thus surrendering any serious"
"time to musical endeavors. Having given up her performing career, she settled upon painting as a creative outlet, which had also been a hobby George briefly pursued. Arthur Gershwin followed in the paths of George and Ira, also becoming a composer of songs, musicals, and short piano works. With a degree of frustration, George tried various piano teachers for some two years (circa. 1911) before finally being introduced to Charles Hambitzer by Jack Miller (circa. 1913), the pianist in the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Until his death in 1918, Hambitzer remained Gershwin's musical mentor and taught him conventional piano technique, introduced"
"after his favorite singer Reba McEntire. By 2007 he preferred to be publicly known as George. Lori and George spent the first 24 years of their lives living in an institution in Hamburg, Pennsylvania in which the majority of patients were suffering from severe intellectual disabilities. Although neither is intellectually disabled, George's physical condition required special care. A court decision was made that their parents would be unable to care for them properly and they were removed and institutionalized. In the 1960s there were few hospital institutions for people who had special needs that were particularly unusual. In order that"
"by three sons. Irving Gordon Irving Gordon (February 14, 1915 – December 1, 1996) was an American songwriter. Irving Gordon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and later lived on Coney Island. He was named Israel Goldener but later changed his name to Irving Gordon. As a child, he studied violin. In high school he wrote a symphony piece, but his teacher laughed at it. Gordon wanted to study at Juilliard but Jews were not admitted at that time. After attending public schools in New York City, Gordon worked in the Catskill Mountains at some of the resort hotels in"
"of her father. She has three half brothers named Luke, Forest and Jed and her father died just before her fifth birthday. Inara George was involved with theatre at young age especially Shakespeare in her native Topanga Canyon, a community in the Santa Monica mountains. She later relocated to Boston to study acting in the classical theater tradition. While visiting home one summer, George and several high-school friends launched a band named Lode. To their surprise, the bandmates landed a deal with Geffen Records and released the 1996 album ""Legs & Arms"". Later, George joined Bryony Atkinson to form Merrick,"
"The Louvin Brothers The Louvin Brothers were an American musical duo composed of brothers Ira and Charlie Louvin (Lonnie Loudermilk (April 21, 1924 – June 20, 1965) and Charlie Elzer Loudermilk (July 7, 1927– January 26, 2011). The brothers are cousins to John D. Loudermilk, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member. The brothers wrote and performed secular country music, as well as fire-and-brimstone gospel music. Ira played virtuoso mandolin and generally sang lead vocal in the tenor range, while Charlie played rhythm guitar and offered supporting vocals in a lower pitch. They helped popularize the vocal technique of close"
"""An Invitation"". George is married to director Jake Kasdan, with whom she has three children, son Otis and twins Beau and Lorelei. Inara George Inara Maryland George (born July 4, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, one half of The Bird and the Bee, a member of the band Merrick, with Bryony Atkinson, and a member of the trio The Living Sisters, with Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark. Her 2006 solo album ""All Rise"" was a KCRW hit. George was born in Towson, Maryland, United States. She is the daughter of Lowell George, the late founder of the rock"
"George Liberace George Liberace (July 31, 1911 – October 16, 1983) was an American musician and television performer. Born in Menasha, Wisconsin, he was the elder brother and business partner of famed U.S. entertainer Liberace (Władziu Valentino Liberace or ""Lee"" to his friends). He appeared regularly on his brother's syndicated television show in the 1950s as violin accompanist and orchestral arranger. On occasions when he did not appear, Liberace would often say his catchphrase ""I wish my brother George was here"". In the 1960s and 1970s, his name was licensed to George Liberace Songsmiths, Inc., a mail-order music publishing operation"
"Irving Caesar Irving Caesar (born Isidor Keiser, July 4, 1895 – December 18, 1996) was an American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous song standards including ""Swanee"", ""Sometimes I'm Happy"", ""Crazy Rhythm"", and ""Tea for Two"", one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written. In 1972 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Caesar, the son of Morris Keiser, a Romanian Jew, was born in New York City. His older brother Arthur Caesar was a successful Hollywood screenwriter. The Caesar brothers spent their childhood and teen years in Yorkville, the same Manhattan neighborhood where"
"Hager Twins The Hager Twins, also known as the Hager Brothers and The Hagers, were a duo of American country music singers and comedians who first gained fame on the TV series ""Hee Haw"". They were identical twin brothers Jim (August 30, 1941—May 1, 2008) and Jon Hager (August 30, 1941—January 9, 2009). The brothers were born August 30, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois <ref name=""Retrieved on 2008/01/17"">http://imdb.com/name/nm0353502, Retrieved on 2008/01/17.</ref> and adopted by Jack and Frances Hager, a Methodist minister and a schoolteacher. The Hager brothers first sang in the church choir. As teenagers they sang on a Saturday morning"
"was completed, Isley was released from a federal half-way house on April 13, 2010. Isley is listed as one of California's most delinquent taxpayers, with a $303,411.43 debt from a lien filed on October 22, 2002. Ronald Isley Ronald Isley (; born May 21, 1941) also known as Ron Isley and Mr. Biggs, is an American recording artist, songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor. Isley is best known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group the Isley Brothers. Born in 1941 to Sallye Bernice (née Bell) and O'Kelly Isley Sr, Isley was the third of"
"Lara George Lara George is a Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter and producer. Lara George was born into the family of Oluwole Bajomo in Lagos State, the administrative division of Nigeria. She attended Queen's College, Lagos before proceeding to the University of Lagos, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Architecture. George began her music career at the University of Lagos, where she joined the campus fellowship choir. She was a member of the disbanded musical group Kush, which included TY Bello, Dapo Torimiro and Emem Ema. Her debut album, titled ""Forever In My Heart"", included the hit single ""Ijoba Orun"""
"they could provide a more stable home environment than his father, who often traveled as a jazz musician. He attended the University of Houston, where he studied English and drama. Breck was the son of bandleader Joe Breck, who was nicknamed ""The Prince of Pep"", and whose band once included trombone player Jerry Colonna. His parents divorced when Peter was eight. Peter went with Joe, while his younger brother George accompanied their mother, resulting in a decades-long separation. In 1959 an Associated Press photograph showed the brothers reunited after being out of touch for 22 years. The caption explained: ""George"
"April 1970. They later divorced, and he became involved with Elizabeth Levy. Together he and Levy had a daughter, Inara Maryland George, in July 1974; the couple would marry in 1976. Inara is half of the musical duo The Bird and the Bee. Lowell was step-father to Elizabeth's son Jed Levy from her previous marriage to Tom Levy. George died June 29, 1979 just days before Inara's fifth birthday. Lowell George Lowell Thomas George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979) was an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, who was the primary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock"
"them."" Arthur is buried in Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Arthur Gershwin Arthur Gershwin (March 14, 1900 – November 19, 1981) was one of the four Gershwin family siblings of American musical fame. Although he was a composer, he was not a professional musician, and made his living as a stockbroker. He was born in New York City and was the third of the four Gershwin siblings (Ira, George, Arthur, and Frances). Arthur composed the two-act musical ""A Lady Says Yes"" (1945), which is set in 1545 and 1945 and takes place in Venice, Washington D.C., and China. It ran"
"and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit ""Lady, Be Good"". Once the brothers joined forces, their combined talents became one of the most influential forces in the history of American Musical Theatre. ""When the Gershwins teamed up to write songs for ""Lady, Be Good"", the American musical found its native idiom."" Together, they wrote the music for more than 12 shows and four films. Some of their more famous works include ""The Man I Love"", ""Fascinating Rhythm"", ""Someone to Watch Over Me"", ""I Got Rhythm"" and ""They Can't Take That Away from"
"George Sarah George Shimeall, known professionally by his stage name George Sarah, is a Los Angeles, California, based composer. George Sarah rose to notoriety in the electronic music scene with Stereotaxic Device, a band he was in from 1988 until 1992, when he began his solo career under the moniker THC, which he used until 1999. In 2000, George Sarah's demo, ""Sonata for Petra,"" reached #1 on the influential L.A. radio station KCRW. The following year, he was invited by Nic Harcourt, along with his string trio, for a live performance of his electronic chamber music on KCRW's Morning Becomes"
"the music industry by the early 1980s, with subsequent singles never achieving the success of the Harold Battiste produced, and certified gold single, ""I Know"". She sang on the Willy DeVille album, ""Victory Mixture"". Barbara gave birth to three sons, Tevin, Albert and Gregory. Barbara's son Tevin George trained as a professional boxer and is listed as the United States 1986 winner of the Golden Gloves award subsequently going on to perform in the Olympic Trials. George died in August 2006 in Chauvin, Louisiana where she had spent the last ten years of her life, aged 63. Barbara George Barbara"